Quotes About Creativity

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

My mind sort of works like a search engine. You ask me something, and I start seeing pictures.

When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When I'd start a collection, I'd sit with my old notebooks and look through them for inspiration.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.

I do the odd pie, or quiche or sausage roll.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.

You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

I want to make each piece of clothing work 15 different ways.

My kids are my greatest piece of art.

Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. And, it's also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work - it's easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

'Midnight Cowboy' is an exquisite piece of filmmaking. It's insane.

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there before. You could have five different actors play one role, and all five of them would be so different because each person brings a different piece of them into it.

I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.